"We are focused only in two kinds of olive trees: Royal and Picual varieties"

Picture taken at our grove with my parents in the background. "Olivos centenarios" or Centenary olive trees at an altitude of 2.700 ft.

ROYAL VARIETY comes a wild tree that is authoctonous from Cazorla's mountains. This tree is more common to find in the mountains than in the valley. This variety has suffered a very drastic reduction in its cultivation due to the difficulty of harvesting it. The olives are firmly attached to the branches which means that they need to be harvested by hand otherwise we will damage the tree with other methods.

We have only a few royal trees, so we harvest them in early October. This is our PREMIUM EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL ROYAL, the most exclusive olive oil we have due to its limited production.

Our goal is to keep this unique variety alive.

Here is my mom close to her favourite royal tree, she inheritaed this grove from her grandparents.

PICUAL VARIETY comes from a more common tree in the mountains of Cazorla. This variety is one of the major varieties of olive oil produced in Spain, mostly all of its production is in the Province of Jaen.

The majority of the trees that my family cultivate are the Picual variety. Even though 10,000 olive trees are not too many, we can't harvest them in only 2 weeks so we start harvesting in early October at an optimal state of maturity and continue harvesting until December.

The fruit produces real olive juice with some very particular organoleptic characteristics, bringing out the intensity of its fruity flavour and the complexity of its aromas: herbal and fruity, rising up in the mouth, with an exceptional balance between bitter and tangy.

We harvest the olives and transport them from the field to the mill continuously in short periods several times daily, so that they are milled in less than 6 hours from their harvesting. As a result of this urgency in the handling and processing of the fruit, we are able to ensure the freshness of our oil.

The oil is cold pressed at a temperature that never exceeds 22°C and it is conveniently filtered.

In early October the olives are unripe and totally green. These olives are unripe and without much juice in them, but the juice from the unrip green olives is of the highest quality. From these olives we need to harvest 8kgs of unripe olives to get 1 litre of PREMIUM EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL. Professional tasters are the ones who normally recognize these olive oils and normally these are the olive oils that win international awards.

As the weeks are passing the olives are changing colour to a more purple colour and ripe state. This is our EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL PICUAL. In comparison, to produce 1 litre of this Extra Virgin Olive Oil we need to harvest just 4kgs of ripe olives.

We offer our product in 500 ml glass containers each with an anti-drip dispenser and a non-refillable stopper, which guarantees the origin and the purity of the product at all times.

We also offer a family size 5 liter tin, which ensures that our oil keeps the same properties from the first to the last drop.

VEZORLA IS LOCAL

Vezorla Inc. was founded in Calgary by Veronica Guirado in 2015 to provide real extra virgin olive oil to the region.

The olive oil under the Vezorla brand is selected in Cazorla (Spain) to be exclusively imported to Calgary.

OUR OLIVE OIL IS REAL

0% blended, this means that 100% of the juice in the bottle is Extra Virgin Olive Oil from picual olives or Extra Virgin Olive Oil from royal olives, from the top to the bottom of the bottle.

0% refined, this means that 100% of the juice is not refined. The olive oil that is refined is typically obtained from olives picked from the ground. As a result that olive oil is not good for consuption so it needs to be refined like other oils.

0% infused, so far we are focused on the olive oil taste itself as a juice. The taste of juice from royal olives is totally different from picual olives. We don't need to infuse un-natural flavours.

It is called olive juice because the olives are fruits and the juice is cold pressed using mechanical means just like homemade orange juice.

Look at the quality stamp on the back label, the left bottom corner, this stamp corresponds to the Designation of Origin Sierra de Cazorla which means that it has the highest quality standards as per the European Union, see below:

Every single bottle needs to have its own code number, which means that particular bottle has been certified as a Extra Virgin Olive Oil by the Regulatory Council on behalf of International Olive Oil Council.

YOU GET ITFRESH

Look at the back label to know the harvest year and the packaged day.

Vezorla only imports small batches which make it easier to keep a fresh product every year.